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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibilityourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary Mcleod Bethune

Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him; so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

Rupert Lowe

It's not enough to say 'I wasn't aware of it,' because you have a responsibility to know what's going on in your lab. It's a huge ethical no-no, it smacks of coercion.

Arthur Caplan

On the one hand, I think it's really disturbing to have the FBI come knocking at your door, demanding to look at things you've been reading. It smacks of a Gestapo state. On the other hand, it's so heavy handed to be almost ludicrous.

Mark Feldstein

Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us.

Joel Hefley

I just believe it's wrong. Do it after the May election; otherwise it smacks of campaigning.

Jan Hibbard

That smacks of bribery. He just opens himself up to misusing his money. This is the quintessential rookie mistake.

Garrison Nelson

Most of the bands that have regrouped or reformed didn't ring true for me. It smacks of cashing in. We wanted to become a band again and make a new record, ... It's unfair to fans and musicians to just release reissues.

Chris Stein

[To many Latin Americans,] the war smacks of U.S. imperialism and bullying and is extraordinarily unpopular, ... America is seen as an arrogant, run-amok republic that does things without thinking them through.

Riordan Roett

It smacks of financial eavesdropping. It's not our role -- we're a service provider to small businesses. This proposal would put the credit card banks in a very strange position.

Charlotte Birch

Anytime you have anything that even smacks of scandal, I think it hurts all of us.

Joel Hefley

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Robbie Fowler

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

It really seems to me that it smacks of Big Brother, basically some sort of fascism.

Michael James

The county is pursuing its own reckless water policy and refuses to sit down with the town. They continue to isolate us. That smacks of some power control county issue.

Bob Hadfield

This smacks of protectionism and is completely out of line with the overall trend of free trade represented by the (World Trade Organization) Doha Round.

Chong Quan

To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of coercion.

Gloria Feldt

For a city or person to claim a right of ?exclusivity? smacks of ?elitism? to me. I refuse to believe a surf icon of the past or any city official for that matter, can truly define a magical culture.

Michael Thompson

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

Morshed Khan

For someone to dictate to us that after 48 hours, we can no longer use this footage without permission, smacks a little bit of censorship number one. And number two, it's just, basically, unfair.

John Fink

It smacks of cronyism.

Mark Krikorian

Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.

Eric Antebi